Miranda Belansky

The parties separated and the mother sought to restrict the father's parenting time to supervised visits, alleging a history of family violence, sexual abuse, and abduction risk.

The father sought unsupervised parenting time and a determination of his child support obligations based on his income earned in Nigeria, converted at a black market exchange rate, with a reduction for undue hardship due to travel costs.

The court found the mother's allegations of sexual abuse and abduction risk to be unsubstantiated and granted the father unsupervised regular and holiday parenting time.

For child support, the court rejected the black market exchange rate, applying the Receiver General of Canada rate instead.

Due to the father's failure to provide adequate financial disclosure and his intentional under-employment, the court imputed his income at $50,000.

The father's claim for undue hardship was dismissed, and he was ordered to pay $755 per month in child support.

The applicant children's aid society brought a motion to vary a temporary order that had placed two young children in its care, seeking to place them with the father of the younger child under supervision.

The mother opposed the placement.

The court dismissed the motion to change the primary placement, finding insufficient evidence of the proposed father's suitability and concluding that the least intrusive order consistent with the children's best interests was to maintain the current society care order.

The court did vary the order to restrict the older child's father's access to only his biological child.